The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
Two 81 tbe children Of the late Jno

Two Of the children Of the late Jno.
j. Shaubut were not present at the flu
neral services to-day, but are expected
TO arrive tonight or tomorrow. They
are Mrs. Emma T. Bangs, Of Liberty
Mills, Ind, and J. G. Shaubut, Of Garri-
son, Montana.
Lake Crystal UniOn: Paul Minister,
familiarity called "Dutchie," who has
been working for some time at Mrs.
Reiman's, few miles west of this place,
last Sunday took an old musket heavily
loaded and went TO pond near by and
discharged the piece at q flock of ducks,
holding the breach against his abdomen.
The position in which he held the gun,
and the recoil so forcible inflicted an in
jury that caused his death on Monday
night. The boy had been forbidden the
use of the gun, but in an evil hour DISC
beyed the injunction. He was German,
and about twelve years of age, and his
parents live in this place.
The remark is often made that
Thoms' new fruit store is equal to any
thing to be found in st. Paul or Min
neapohs.
The time of year has now arrived
when unluckY men must combat the
parlor stove pipe with all his energy and
circumvention.
Hutchinson & Moffett are doing a
land Office business in the school book
line. In two days they sold over 5000
worth of books.
The teachers examinations will be
held in this county from Oct. 3rd to Oct.
sth inclusive. The first one win probab-.
IY occur at Mankato, but the dates for
the other towns have not yet been made
out.
-Hoerr & Patterson's new building is
entirely up and has been named the
Union Block" The first floor will be
completely finished of inside of three
weeks, when Mr.. B. Tuttle will move
his hardware establishment therein.
Hall & Coffin report the following
real estate sales for Edwin w. Dixie:
Wa WI ct swt sec. q, IOS, %, to Thorn
as Wilson, for $442.50.
E3 WI Ell swf sec. 81, 1OS, %, to Handy
E. Britt, for $442.5O.
Ell e3 swf sec. q, 100, %, to Daniel NJ.
Britt, for 1886.
The funeral of the late Carl Schroe-
der, held at st. Clair yesterday, was one
of the most largely attended ever held
in the county. The deceased was wide
ly known and greatly respected. A
large concourse of people also attended
the funeral of DR.. Haynes, held at the
same place in the afternoon.
The attendance at the Normal
is remarkably large for the first week of
the school. The absence ofthe Prepare
tory department seems to have made no
difference in the number of students.
An encouraging feature is that the
classes in the higher branches areverY
much larger than ever before. The
students are of much better class, on
the average, than those of any previous
year.
There was large meeting of the
Presbyterian society last evening. No
formal call of q pastor was made, but it
was decided to see what arrangements
could be made toward securing the SER
vices of Rev. Charles Little, of Danville,
Ill. That gentleman is brother of Rev.
J. B. Little, well-known and esteemed
former pastor, and it was the unanimous
opinion of the meeting that an invitation
be given him to pay Mankato visit. 1t
is not known that Mr.. Little will leave
Danville, as it is said he is very pleas
antly situated at that city.
The funeral of Mr.. John ]. Shaubut
occurred this afternoon. A delegation
of Masons left at about II 100 o'clock this
forenoon for Mr.. Shaubut's late resi-
dence in Nicollet county, and returned
shortly after two o'clock. Funeral SER
vices were Immediately afterwards held
in the Presbyterian church, under the
auspices of Mankato Lodge, No. II, F. &
A. NJ. Rev. Conrad, of Sterling, deliV-
cred an impressive funeral Grafton. The
church was crowded, and the procession
that afterwards accompanied the re-
mains to the cemetery was very long.
The preliminary examination of
John Riley on the charge of stealing
cattle from Mr.. David Evans, of South
Bend, was completed yesterday after
noon. After the testimony for the State
had been all received, the defense
moved that Riley be discharged on ac-
count of lack of evidence to warrant
binding him over to await the action of
the grand jury. The motion was sus-
tanned by Judge Porter and the defend
ant was discharged. The complaint
stated that on June 4th Riley stole four
teen head of cattle from Mr.. Evans and
drove them into Martin county with
herd which he had bought in this vicin-
ity. A number of witnesses and spec
tators were present from the towns of
Judson and South Bend.